On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 08/18/2012 06:38 AM, schrieb Keith N. McKenna: > >> Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>> >>> Am 08/02/2012 02:12 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM, drew<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 18:28 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, drew >>>>>> jensen<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:09 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi Kay; >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I did some basic update to the FreeBSD porting site sometime ago: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/freebsd/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The site doesn't seem linked from the top-level porting site though. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I would prefer to spend my time on the code rather than on the >>>>>>>> release >>>>>>>> announcement, however feel free to mention explicitly the FreeBSD >>>>>>>> port. >>>>>>>> Just to make it clear: we still have some cleanup to do but the >>>>>>>> port is >>>>>>>> fully operational and FreeBSD users are fully aware that it's >>>>>>>> available >>>>>>>> on FreeBSD releases. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Pedro. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Pedro, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Then for BSD it should be enough to just point to the page you >>>>>>> updated, >>>>>>> yes? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> IMHO, we should consolidate all the porting links onto that one page. >>>>>> That way it gives one clear place to link to in the announcement, but >>>>>> also a single place we can link to from other places in the future. >>>>>> For example, we should probably eventually have a link to the porting >>>>>> page from the download page. >>>>>> >>>>>> -Rob >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> hmmm - well, I'm just getting around to looking at things for this >>>>> evening. >>>>> >>>>> Looking at the page(s) now... *chuckling*.. >>>>> >>>>> This might not be the right place for what I thought was the task - a >>>>> list of existing known ports which are not part of the official AOO >>>>> release regiment. >>>>> >>>>> The porting page and it's associated pages seem more about the act of >>>>> creating a port, with >>>>> >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/porting_overview.html >>>>> >>>>> and >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/porting/porting_implement.html >>>>> >>>>> which starts off by pointing to this page: >>>>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_Efforts >>>>> >>>>> and that offers links to places such as >>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/udk/cpp/man/cpp_bridges.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> So do we really want a page for listing existing non-official ports >>>>> that >>>>> are known, a simple information service for our users without and >>>>> explicitly stating such, endorsing the work - or do we want a resource >>>>> for those wanting to perform a port to a new platform - for the >>>>> announcement(s) that is. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yes. ;-) >>>> >>>> Maybe the existing porting page remains as a developer-focused page? >>>> It needs to be updated, of course, but maybe not as urgent. >>>> >>>> Then we also need a user-facing page about existing ports. Maybe that >>>> could be a new page in the /download directory? >>> >>> >>> There is already a page which points to 3rd party software / packages: >>> >>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/non_ASF.html >>> >>> Kay has created this to compensate the old distribution webpage which >>> was totally outdated. >>> >>> So, what about to extend this new page with a "Ports" section from >>> FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2 and others? >>> >>>> For the announcement the user-facing one would be the most >>>> appropriate, yes? >>> >>> >>> I think so. >>> >>> Marcus >>> >>> >> Morning All; >> >> Just checking in on this thread to see if there has been any consensus >> on how we should do this or if we should. As we are fast approaching >> release of 3.4.1 I would like to get this into the Release Notes. >> >> As a stated bore I believe that it is important to get the information >> out that these operating systems are not forgotten and that Apache >> OpenOffice is available. > > > As I haven't seen any different let's add these OSs with a statement to the > "non_ASF.html" webpage. >
The announcement current links to: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ Is that the wrong place? That URL is the top listing if someone searches Google for "openoffice ports. I'm happy to change the announcement to point to: http://www.openoffice.org/download/non_ASF.html But we would need to get some content there. It is in the CMS, so anyone can edit it. -Rob > Marcus
